Harris and Lewis - The Outer Isles

This set of islands is exten­sive with 15 islands being inhab­it­ed along with a fur­ther 50 that are unin­hab­it­ed. Our work­shop here con­cen­trates on the Isles of Har­ris and Lew­­is and dur­ing the work­shop and we vis­it many of the amaz­ing and world-renowned beach­es such as Lusken­tyre, Siele­bost, Hor­ga­bost, Huisi­nis and Uig Bay.

There is some­thing very spe­cial about the coast of the Hebrides with a sense of iso­la­tion and des­o­la­tion as you stand on pure white sands on the edge of the turquoise Atlantic Ocean. This wild west­ern loca­tion is sub­ject­ed to the con­stant chang­ing of the weath­er com­ing across the Atlantic and often deliv­ers brood­ing skies and giant rolling waves. Along with the pris­tine beach­es, are the count­less rock coves with geol­o­gy that dis­plays some of the old­est rocks on the sur­face of the earth, the 3000 mil­lion year old Lewisian Gneiss. It is not uncom­mon to spend hours walk­ing the beach­es and not see anoth­er soul.

Dur­ing the pho­tog­ra­phy work­shop we will trav­el exten­sive­ly through Lewis and Har­ris, and no work­shop would be com­plete with­out stop­ping to pho­to­graph the Stand­ing Stones of Callan­dish. The Hebrides is often regard­ed as one of the loca­tions on the ​‘Buck­et List’ of land­scape pho­tog­ra­phers and it is one that will remain in your mem­o­ries for decades to come. 

You will be spend­ing plen­ty of time out with your cam­era where you will get plen­ty of 1 to 1 tuition with that will include both tech­ni­cal aspects of land­scape pho­tog­ra­phy as well as the art of good com­po­si­tions. Dur­ing our stay on the Out­er Hebrides we will ded­i­cate spe­cif­ic time to an image review. We find these are par­tic­u­lar­ly use­ful giv­ing the oppor­tu­ni­ty for feed­back on your images and also dis­cov­er­ing what oth­er peo­ple have cap­tured from the same loca­tions that you have vis­it­ed. The diver­si­ty of inter­pre­ta­tion is always astounding.

One of the aims of this pho­tog­ra­phy work­shop is to delve deep­er into how you want to por­tray these beau­ti­ful islands with their amaz­ing coast­lines. We will active­ly encour­age cre­ativ­i­ty and the free­dom to take your time, soak up the moment and explore your­self as a pho­tog­ra­ph­er. Paul Gal­lagher FRPS and Michael Pilk­ing­ton FRPS will be on hand through­out the entire work­shop to work with you and har­ness your individuality.

Because The Out­er Hebrides is one of the most remote parts of the UK we can help by offer­ing you free return trans­port from Pre­ston to the Hebrides, which also includes your return fer­ry tick­et from Ullapool to Stornoway.